Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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... existence , we found intoxicat- ing liquor , recognized by every body , used by every body , and repudiated by nobody . It commonly entered into the first draught of the infant , and the last draught of the dying man . From the ...
... existence , we found intoxicat- ing liquor , recognized by every body , used by every body , and repudiated by nobody . It commonly entered into the first draught of the infant , and the last draught of the dying man . From the ...
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... existence . It was a sort of necessity . We had gone through our struggle and secured our own independence . The framers of the Constitution found the institution of slavery amongst their other institutions at the time . They found that ...
... existence . It was a sort of necessity . We had gone through our struggle and secured our own independence . The framers of the Constitution found the institution of slavery amongst their other institutions at the time . They found that ...
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... existence , of such a con- spiracy . I am disposed to take his answer as being as broad as though he had put it in these words . And now , I ask , even if he had done so , have not I a right to prove it on him , and to offer the ...
... existence , of such a con- spiracy . I am disposed to take his answer as being as broad as though he had put it in these words . And now , I ask , even if he had done so , have not I a right to prove it on him , and to offer the ...
Contents
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Copyright | |
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